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4 Top Value Stocks For Your July 2021 Watchlist

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Check Out These Value Stocks Amid The Volatility In The Stock Market Today

In the stock market now, meme stocks have been getting all the attention through multifold returns in a short span of time. Just take a look at AMC Entertainment (NYSE: AMC). The cinema-chain operator saw its stock surged by over 2,200% year-to-date. One would be lying if they say they have never thought of initiating a position in some of the trending meme stocks. That’s because your portfolio returns could literally change overnight if you hit the bullseye among these meme names. 

However, given the speculation across asset classes, it’s a good idea to have some exposure to value stocks. Of course, no one can say for sure that a stock market crash is imminent. Yet, smart investors might want to diversify into value stocks as a potential hedge if you believe the downturn could continue. Admittedly, with stock indexes reaching all-time highs recently, it can be difficult for investors to find true value names in the stock market. But if we take a closer look, I’m pretty sure there are still some quality stocks in the market that are trading at reasonable valuations.

Now, the downside to value investing is that sometimes your investment might take years to bring significant returns. But you could also pick some of the top-value stocks that pay generous dividends. This way, it would allow investors to collect passive income while waiting for capital gains to materialize. Assuming you’re keen on value investing, do you have a list of top-value stocks to buy in the stock market today

Top Value Stocks To Buy [Or Avoid] Now

General Motors

With plans to go all-electric by 2035, General Motors is a serious contender to watch in the red-hot electric vehicle space. While high-profile electric vehicle stocks may get more of the attention in the stock market today, General Motors is not sitting on the sidelines either. In fact, GM is not only pushing into the EV market, but it is also investing heavily in autonomous vehicle technology. Of course, GM is no Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA). But that doesn’t mean GM can’t be one of the best value stocks to buy for investors looking to gain exposure in the automotive space. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives picked up coverage of GM stock Thursday evening with a “Buy” rating and an $85 price target. This implies a potential 51% increase from its current valuation.

If we’re to compare the stock performance among top EV stocks, GM handily outperformed Wall Street’s favorite EV stocks, namely Tesla and Nio (NYSE: NIO). The company’s stock price is seeing gains of nearly 40% year-to-date. General Motors recently unveiled its plan on increasing its EV and AV investments from 2020 through 2025 to $35 billion. This represents a 75% bump from its initial commitment announced before the pandemic. If you believe that GM will take up sizable market shares in the EV space, is now the time to bet on GM stock?

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Source: TD Ameritrade TOS

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Nintendo

Nintendo is a notable Japanese gaming company behind the hit franchises such as Mario and Donkey Kong. It makes gaming consoles such as the Wii, Game Boy, Super Nintendo, and most recently the Nintendo Switch. One can simply assume that the Nintendo Switch gaming system is the face of the company right now. The success of this hybrid console has sent Nintendo stock over the roof in recent years. Nintendo’s revenue soared 34% in fiscal 2020, which ended this March. In detail, its total shipments of Switch gaming consoles surged 37% to 28.8 million last year.

However, Nintendo expects a slowdown this year as the pandemic passes. The chip shortage problems and competition from new gaming consoles could pose further challenges. The good news here is though, the company has other big initiatives outside of gaming to diversify its profits. These include theme parks known as Super Nintendo World, and a Super Mario movie coming in 2022. With the existing growth rate for Nintendo consoles and its low valuation, would you invest in NTDOY stock as it takes a breather in the stock market this week?

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Source: TD Ameritrade TOS

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Bank of America

Bank of America or BAC is another favorite financial stock among investors. The bank is seeing moderate loan growth in the second quarter. This is reassuring considering most banks in the first quarter saw total loan balances declining from the end of 2020. Despite the strong performance, BAC stock still isn’t an expensive buy. With the forward PE ratio of 13, it’s a good bargain for value investors. That is even after the gain of over 28% in BAC stock this year. 

The company was one of the first few to kick-start 2021’s first-quarter earnings. In detail, the company posted total revenue of $22.8 billion for the quarter. Total net income was $8.1 billion, more than double what it was a year ago. The majority of this income came from its consumer banking segment at $2.7 billion and global markets segment at $2.1 billion. Deposits were up by 25% to a staggering $924 billion. With such an impressive quarter, will you consider adding BAC stock to your watchlist?

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Source: TD Ameritrade TOS

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Apple

To sum up the list, Apple is a trillion-dollar company that requires no further introduction. Trading near its all-time high, AAPL stock may not appear to be a value stock to buy at first glance. But with the potential it could deliver in the long run, would you agree that it is a top value stock to buy in the stock market right now? The company has a very strong brand loyalty for its premium tech products like the iPhone and Macbook. In fact, Apple had a worldwide installed base of over 1.65 billion devices as of this year’s first quarter. And I would bet that the number is going to climb with the recent launch of its M1-powered devices. 

After reporting revenue more than $10 billion above Wall Street’s estimates in the last quarter, expectations are sky-high for the iPhone maker going into its third fiscal quarter. The company is slated to report its earnings on July 27. JPMorgan analyst Samik Chatterjee reiterated his overweight rating on Apple stock this week, with a price target of $170. Many investors appear to agree with his outlook. So, if you are confident that the company could deliver another blowout quarter at the end of this month, is AAPL stock a buy ahead of its earnings?

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Source: TD Ameritrade TOS

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Mike Pompeo Doesn’t Rule Out Serving In 2nd Trump Administration

Mike Pompeo Doesn’t Rule Out Serving In 2nd Trump Administration

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

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Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a new interview that he’s not ruling out accepting a White House position if former President Donald Trump is reelected in November.

“If I get a chance to serve and think that I can make a difference ... I’m almost certainly going to say yes to that opportunity to try and deliver on behalf of the American people,” he told Fox News, when asked during a interview if he would work for President Trump again.

I’m confident President Trump will be looking for people who will faithfully execute what it is he asked them to do,” Mr. Pompeo said during the interview, which aired on March 8. “I think as a president, you should always want that from everyone.”

Then-President Donald Trump (C), then- Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L), and then-Vice President Mike Pence, take a question during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House in Washington on April 8, 2020. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

He said that as a former secretary of state, “I certainly wanted my team to do what I was asking them to do and was enormously frustrated when I found that I couldn’t get them to do that.”

Mr. Pompeo, a former U.S. representative from Kansas, served as Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2018 before he was secretary of state from 2018 to 2021. After he left office, there was speculation that he could mount a Republican presidential bid in 2024, but announced that he wouldn’t be running.

President Trump hasn’t publicly commented about Mr. Pompeo’s remarks.

In 2023, amid speculation that he would make a run for the White House, Mr. Pompeo took a swipe at his former boss, telling Fox News at the time that “the Trump administration spent $6 trillion more than it took in, adding to the deficit.”

“That’s never the right direction for the country,” he said.

In a public appearance last year, Mr. Pompeo also appeared to take a shot at the 45th president by criticizing “celebrity leaders” when urging GOP voters to choose ahead of the 2024 election.

2024 Race

Mr. Pompeo’s interview comes as the former president was named the “presumptive nominee” by the Republican National Committee (RNC) last week after his last major Republican challenger, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, dropped out of the 2024 race after failing to secure enough delegates. President Trump won 14 out of 15 states on Super Tuesday, with only Vermont—which notably has an open primary—going for Ms. Haley, who served as President Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

On March 8, the RNC held a meeting in Houston during which committee members voted in favor of President Trump’s nomination.

“Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump on his huge primary victory!” the organization said in a statement last week. “I’d also like to congratulate Nikki Haley for running a hard-fought campaign and becoming the first woman to win a Republican presidential contest.”

Earlier this year, the former president criticized the idea of being named the presumptive nominee after reports suggested that the RNC would do so before the Super Tuesday contests and while Ms. Haley was still in the race.

Also on March 8, the RNC voted to name Trump-endorsed officials to head the organization. Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican, was elected the party’s new national chairman in a vote in Houston, and Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.

“The RNC is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly every single day to elect our nominee, Donald J. Trump, as the 47th President of the United States,” Mr. Whatley told RNC members in a speech after being elected, replacing former chair Ronna McDaniel. Ms. Trump is expected to focus largely on fundraising and media appearances.

President Trump hasn’t signaled whom he would appoint to various federal agencies if he’s reelected in November. He also hasn’t said who his pick for a running mate would be, but has offered several suggestions in recent interviews.

In various interviews, the former president has mentioned Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), Vivek Ramaswamy, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, among others.

Tyler Durden Wed, 03/13/2024 - 17:00

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Riley Gaines Explains How Women’s Sports Are Rigged To Promote The Trans Agenda

Riley Gaines Explains How Women’s Sports Are Rigged To Promote The Trans Agenda

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Is there a light forming when it comes to the long, dark and bewildering tunnel of social justice cultism?  Global events have been so frenetic that many people might not remember, but only a couple years ago Big Tech companies and numerous governments were openly aligned in favor of mass censorship.  Not just to prevent the public from investigating the facts surrounding the pandemic farce, but to silence anyone questioning the validity of woke concepts like trans ideology. 

From 2020-2022 was the closest the west has come in a long time to a complete erasure of freedom of speech.  Even today there are still countries and Europe and places like Canada or Australia that are charging forward with draconian speech laws.  The phrase "radical speech" is starting to circulate within pro-censorship circles in reference to any platform where people are allowed to talk critically.  What is radical speech?  Basically, it's any discussion that runs contrary to the beliefs of the political left.

Open hatred of moderate or conservative ideals is perfectly acceptable, but don't ever shine a negative light on woke activism, or you might be a terrorist.

Riley Gaines has experienced this double standard first hand.  She was even assaulted and taken hostage at an event in 2023 at San Francisco State University when leftists protester tried to trap her in a room and demanded she "pay them to let her go."  Campus police allegedly witnessed the incident but charges were never filed and surveillance footage from the college was never released.  

It's probably the last thing a champion female swimmer ever expects, but her head-on collision with the trans movement and the institutional conspiracy to push it on the public forced her to become a counter-culture voice of reason rather than just an athlete.

For years the independent media argued that no matter how much we expose the insanity of men posing as women to compete and dominate women's sports, nothing will really change until the real female athletes speak up and fight back.  Riley Gaines and those like her represent that necessary rebellion and a desperately needed return to common sense and reason.

In a recent interview on the Joe Rogan Podcast, Gaines related some interesting information on the inner workings of the NCAA and the subversive schemes surrounding trans athletes.  Not only were women participants essentially strong-armed by colleges and officials into quietly going along with the program, there was also a concerted propaganda effort.  Competition ceremonies were rigged as vehicles for promoting trans athletes over everyone else. 

The bottom line?  The competitions didn't matter.  The real women and their achievements didn't matter.  The only thing that mattered to officials were the photo ops; dudes pretending to be chicks posing with awards for the gushing corporate media.  The agenda took precedence.

Lia Thomas, formerly known as William Thomas, was more than an activist invading female sports, he was also apparently a science project fostered and protected by the athletic establishment.  It's important to understand that the political left does not care about female athletes.  They do not care about women's sports.  They don't care about the integrity of the environments they co-opt.  Their only goal is to identify viable platforms with social impact and take control of them.  Women's sports are seen as a vehicle for public indoctrination, nothing more.

The reasons why they covet women's sports are varied, but a primary motive is the desire to assert the fallacy that men and women are "the same" psychologically as well as physically.  They want the deconstruction of biological sex and identity as nothing more than "social constructs" subject to personal preference.  If they can destroy what it means to be a man or a woman, they can destroy the very foundations of relationships, families and even procreation.  

For now it seems as though the trans agenda is hitting a wall with much of the public aware of it and less afraid to criticize it.  Social media companies might be able to silence some people, but they can't silence everyone.  However, there is still a significant threat as the movement continues to target children through the public education system and women's sports are not out of the woods yet.   

The ultimate solution is for women athletes around the world to organize and widely refuse to participate in any competitions in which biological men are allowed.  The only way to save women's sports is for women to be willing to end them, at least until institutions that put doctrine ahead of logic are made irrelevant.          

Tyler Durden Wed, 03/13/2024 - 17:20

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Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2024

Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2024
A brief excerpt: This 2-part overview for mid-March provides a snapshot of the current housing market.

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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-March 2024

A brief excerpt:
This 2-part overview for mid-March provides a snapshot of the current housing market.

I always like to start with inventory, since inventory usually tells the tale!
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Here is a graph of new listing from Realtor.com’s February 2024 Monthly Housing Market Trends Report showing new listings were up 11.3% year-over-year in February. This is still well below pre-pandemic levels. From Realtor.com:

However, providing a boost to overall inventory, sellers turned out in higher numbers this February as newly listed homes were 11.3% above last year’s levels. This marked the fourth month of increasing listing activity after a 17-month streak of decline.
Note the seasonality for new listings. December and January are seasonally the weakest months of the year for new listings, followed by February and November. New listings will be up year-over-year in 2024, but we will have to wait for the March and April data to see how close new listings are to normal levels.

There are always people that need to sell due to the so-called 3 D’s: Death, Divorce, and Disease. Also, in certain times, some homeowners will need to sell due to unemployment or excessive debt (neither is much of an issue right now).

And there are homeowners who want to sell for a number of reasons: upsizing (more babies), downsizing, moving for a new job, or moving to a nicer home or location (move-up buyers). It is some of the “want to sell” group that has been locked in with the golden handcuffs over the last couple of years, since it is financially difficult to move when your current mortgage rate is around 3%, and your new mortgage rate will be in the 6 1/2% to 7% range.

But time is a factor for this “want to sell” group, and eventually some of them will take the plunge. That is probably why we are seeing more new listings now.
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